NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 1

NEWS BREVITIES

Sugar-Mill Strikers Firm. —The strikers at the South Johnstone sugar mill, Queensland, decided by 204 votes to 95 not to resume work.- —A. and N.Z. Dear Pheasants. —E. Clinch and A. C. Price, who had been seen shooting four hen pheasants were each fined £ 5 in the Police Court yesterday. Theft of Cheques.—Guy Carney, who admitted in the Police Court yesterday stealing two cheques for a total amount of £1 18s, was placed on probation for 12 months, and ordered to make restitution. Body in River.—The body of George Low was found in the Grey River this morning at Kotuku. Deceased, who is a single man aged 4?, had apparently fallen in accidentally. He had been suffering from heart trouble. Ex-Servicemen’s League.—With the idea of raising funds to assist the unemployed fund, the Ex-Servicemen’s League will hold a meteing at the Arcadia Theatre to-morrow. Addresses will be given by Mr. A. W. Flyger, of the Canteen Fund, Mr. A. McCormach and Mr. D. Stuart. Concrete Worker’s Death.—A fatal accident occurred yesterday at Wairoa, when Mr. J. R. Dixon, a concrete pipemaker, received a severe wound in the groin. He was admitted to hospital, but expired shortly afterwards. — Press Association. House Destroyed.—A fire totally destroyed a five-roomed house at Roseneath, Wellington, last evening. The house was owned by Mrs. J. C. Little and occupied by Mr. T. Lawrence. Damage was ;\-io caused to an adjoining house. West Coast Pioneers Dead.—Cabled advice received at Hokitika reports the deaths at Sydney yesterday of Michael Pollock, aged 85, and John Solomon, 96, from pneumonia. Both were formerly well-known residents of Hokitika. —Press Association. O’Neill’s Point Cemetery.—The committee collecting in Devonport for funds to clean up O’Neill’s Point Cemetery has about £l5O in hand. The lists will be closed next week, and it is hoped to get the money allocated for relief of unemployment, and ask for a Government subsidy of £ for £. C.T.A.’s Effort For Charity.—As com- , mercial travellers this year in Dunedin l were compelled by law to abandon ! their usual “Bag Day* effort, an art union was substituted, for which 17,000 tickets were sold in the streets yesterday. These brought in £BBS, and with cash donations and the proceeds of outstanding tickets it is expected to make the total £I,OOO. —Press Association. Tandem Telephone Exchange.—As an extension of the automatic telephone system in Holborn, London, a new exchange has been opened. It is called a “tandem.” This exchange has no subscribers. It is merely a junction which directly connects distant exchanges which otherwise could only be linked up by several intermediate connections. —Sun cable. Naval Beavers.—Some of the crew of one of the warship on the N.Z. station are likely to appear in public sporting hirsute adornments for the next couple of months. It appears that on the way to New Zealand a number of the crew, having seen a naval officer who exhibited a beard of the imperial type plus a cherio moustache finished in neat ringlets, decided to lighten the tedium of a sea voyage by growing similar face finishings. The authorities, not appreciating the joke, have disciplined the ambitious sea dogs.